installation doubt

[Colin Law]

On 16 November 2011 13:53, Buggs Bunny <valambanam at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am coming directly from Windows XP, though I was not a windows admin but I
> have with my Ubuntu LTS 10.04 CD. Planing to install this in the hope that
> it is becoming the most popular distro. Said that, please let me know if
> during installation, what should I do:
>
> Create the separate partitions for each /, /home, /tmp, /usr etc....or not?
> Though its just a newbie talk, but at least I know the installation but
> don't know if should install separate each identities or not....?

There used to be a good argument for having a separate partition for
/home so that you could re-install a later version of Ubuntu and keep
the home data partition.  This is no longer necessary as it is
possible during installation to tell it not to overwrite /home by
telling it not to format the partition.  I just use a single partition
(plus swap).

I have just seen Liam's point that if you want to try an alternative
distribution then separate /home may be a good idea, which may well be
valid if you were thinking of doing that.

Colin